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34 In a little while another veteran was discharged abruptly from the same door, clawing at the air for a saving support. I said:

“Good-morning, Sir. It is a fine day for pleasuring. You were about to say—”

“Oh, my!”

I thought so. I anticipated him, any how. I staid there and was bombarded with old gentlemen for an hour perhaps; and all I got out of any of them was “Oh, my!”

I went away, then, in a thoughtful mood. I said, this is a good pleasure excursion. I like it. The passengers are not garrulous, but still they are sociable. I like those old people,